Finally, in January 2013, TeamBuy completed a merger with Dealfind. The deal costs TeamBuy near 50% of their outstansging orders. The CEO of TeamBuy, Ghassan Halazon, negotiated directly with investors of Dealfind without involving the Dealfind founders since they were already dismissed from the company.
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1. The reality show brought thousands of
unique users to the site. When they
launched their website officially, they
set up a funny solution for punishing
the tech team each time the site would
crash.
2. The punishment of the tech team was a
reward for the users. Halazon said that since
then, when the tech team messes up, the
users know that something fun would be sent
in their e-mail.
3. This company of 120
employees has now more
than 1 million users and has
currently a $30 million gross
revenue run rate.
Team Buy is now one of the
fastest growing start-ups of
the country and the
company asked its
employeed to hug each
otheron Friday before to
leave for the weekend. The
firm named this practice
“Friday hug days.”